The Youth Employment Summit is officially in full swing. As an organizer its been hard to take a step back and appreciate what is going on around you, and to see what we have worked so hard for the past few months.
Today, I managed to spend time in the thematic session, ICTs for Youth Employment, and really feel what was actually going on. The “YES” language is being used everywhere. The same language I have written, and re-written in so many letters. The content we have written, for the web site, and I have uploaded. Did we do this? Did we bring all these people together?
Initiatives are being launched left and right: YCDO - Youth Creating Digital Opportunities, DPYI – Digital Partners Youth Initiative, and NIIT’s / Virgitech’s initiative for an IT literate city of Alexandria - this in the ICT session alone.
Anyway, I am starting to ease in and enjoy myself and appreciate the purpose of the Summit, and at the same time envisioning the next 10 years, and beyond. How will YES impact the world? How will all these initiatives being launched at our Summit flourish? We’ll see. I am young and a new member of the international development community and there is so much to look forward to.